Q: If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it's not for the timid.

Q: If you can’t take a little bloody nose maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid. (Another Q flash and Riker is back in his seat.)

10 Forward:Picard and Guinan are playing 3D chess.
Guinan: Q set a series of events in motion bringing your contact with the Borg much sooner than it should have come. Now, perhaps when you’re ready it might be possible to establish a relationship with them. But for now, for right now you’re just raw material to them. Since they’re aware of your existence………